Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market . |
| 32 | The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches . |
| 33 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 34 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 35 | persistent Soviet attempts to penetrate the Latin American market with its machinery and equipment indicate a distinct reluctance to acquiesce in the continuance of the existing trading imbalance . |
| 36 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 37 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 38 | Many were reportedly angered by the Amir 's decision to restore the National Council despite their request not to do so at a meeting on May 28 between opposition leaders and government ministers . |
| 39 | I HAVE always had the highest regard for Rugby League 's board of directors — until their recent decision to restore the two-division set-up . |
| 40 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 41 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 42 | However , given the level of popular support for Iraq in the other countries , King Hassan 's decision to support the Egyptian line wholeheartedly was generally considered risky . |
| 43 | President Assad 's decision to support the United States-led anti-Iraqi alliance after the Iraqi President and Assad 's Ba'athist adversary , Saddam Hussein , had ordered Iraqi forces into Kuwait in August 1990 led to a swift international reappraisal of Syria , a country long ostracised by the West as a sponsor of international terrorism . |
| 44 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 45 | Both groups were reported to have expressed their willingness to support the Lakas-NUCD coalition in the new legislature . |
| 46 | A. P. Herbert was not the only writer to spot the comic possibilities . |
| 47 | Erm that zoning that allocation in a local plan backed by this erm er er policy in the structure plan would be enough in my judgement to enable the economic development people to actually capture the , get the elephant in the trap . |
| 48 | Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale . |
| 49 | To protect the black child we need to develop strategies to enable the white family to become open so that there can be reciprocity between white and black society . |
| 50 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 51 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 52 | To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing . |
| 53 | With the Irish party abstaining , both English and Irish Roman catholic bishops began to pressurize the leader of the Irish party , Redmond , and his associates to support the Conservative bill . |
| 54 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 55 | ‘ I do n't need to be Plato to see the obvious , ’ he said coldly . |
| 56 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 57 | A unique opportunity to enjoy the magical experience of a dive beneath the sea … without getting wet ! |
| 58 | Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland . |
| 59 | Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland . |
| 60 | This is a splendid opportunity to enjoy the fantastic visibility from the Trislander 's big windows , for many passengers the first time they have really had much of a view from an aircraft . |